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Speaking to reporters today, Trump said the longtime Connecticut Senator is the "frontrunner" to replace James Comey , who was sacked last week by the President. Sen. Comey's abrupt firing came as a shock last week, with competing explanations from the White House and the president as to what spurred the dismissal.

The affidavit says Pettigrew aimed the fake gun at officers, but no shots were fired and no one was hurt. His family members, who live in the area, were supposed to pick him up when he landed and, two and a half hours later, he did not know if they showed up and had no way of contacting them because he did not have his cellphone and hadn't memorized their numbers.

Former CIA Director Mike Hayden, said: "What manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have had to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or appropriate idea?" He told NBC that what he heard late a year ago, while he was still in office, anxious him: "And I think that was the case with all of us in the intelligence community".

Dubke, a veteran Republican operative, was hired in February to help restructure a White House communications shop that struggled to deal with a number of controversies early in the administration. "The reasons for my departure are personal, but it has been my great honor to serve President Trump and this administration", Dubke noted in an email announcing his career change this morning.

According to a police report obtained by TPM , one of Moles' firearms, a Bushmaster Carbon 15 assault rifle, was sitting "in plain view" in his vehicle. Moles was charged with carrying a pistol without a license outside a home or business, according to the police report . A person who identified herself as a relative of Moles and lives in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, about 18 miles from Edinboro, declined to comment when reached by phone.

One of the suspects was taken into custody at gunpoint in front of the house, but the second suspect managed to flee the location, according to the lieutenant. The suspects were not immediately identified. One of those, Zjiahnni Tarralle Lacour, 15, who also was charged with first-degree murder , surrendered to Denver police May 20.